Russia’s latest answer to crowd control: the “Birdiethrower”, a pneumatic machine gun assembled on a standard Tiger armored vehicle that dispatches shuttlecocks at a rate of one sniper shot per second with a 50-meter accuracy range. Cartoon by Vladimir Kremlev of Russia Today.

The puppet metaphor has dogged outgoing Russian president Dmitriy Medvedev since he took office in 2008.  This cartoon by New Zealand-born Alan Moir is among many that will look at the image of Medvedev in a slideshow that will be posted later today at TheWorld.org. 

Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka uses a play on words to illustrate that a vote for Putin wasn’t a choice but a command.

Israeli cartoonist Shay Charka shows how Syria’s staunchest defender (Russia) is not only an ally but a key supplier of the weapons Bashar al-Assad is using on his own people.

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